Good work, ADS. At 19, you already have a very firm grip on your poetics. Keep it up. I tracked you here via Railroad Poetry Project (where I, too, am featured). Come and visit me at http://www.airpoetry.com and try your hand at Air Poetry. It's based on overheard conversations (both in person and online). I think you might enjoy it.

Very interesting work here. The images and words capture what a real sacrifice must mean. I am caught wondering, though, whether this is supplication or vengeance, or is that intended? one thing threw me, the "no man's land is thy island." A bit close to no man is an island. The faint echo of that allusion distracted me away from the power of the poem, for a moment at least.